AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is asking for feedback on its draft nuclear medicine quality control manual. The manual is designed to help facilities establish and maintain an effective nuclear medicine quality control program and meet the requirements of ACR’s Nuclear Medicine Accreditation Program (NMAP).

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Under the new policy, CMS will unpackage and pay separately for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals with per-day costs exceeding $630, removing financial barriers that have long hindered patient access to essential nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 24, 2025

In nuclear medicine, there were 13 applicants for PGY-2. In radiology-nuclear medicine, there were 119 applicants for PGY-2. In interventional radiology (integrated), there were 299 PGY-1 applicants, 381 for PGY-2, and 45 for physician positions.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

The recommendations emphasize the complementary nature of these advanced nuclear medicine exams. In the article, experts provide evidence-based consensus on specific clinical scenarios where PET/CT and SPECT/CT add value for patient care.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kesner recently wrote an article about software applications in the field that was published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He noted that while dosimetry for Lu-177-labeled treatments is still not routinely performed in many nuclear medicine departments, cleared software for it is currently available both in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

A select group of eight radionuclides holds hope for an emerging cancer treatment in nuclear medicine called targeted alpha therapy (TAT). Targeted alpha therapy's elite eight. Graph courtesy of John Tackett and Vani Vijayakumar, MD.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

In 2024, it sent its survey to 1,263 directors of several programs, including the following: radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine technology, sonography, and MR imaging. Nuclear medicine technology program enrollments also increased from 903 students in 2023 to 1,403 students enrolling in 2024.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

The generated report included indication, findings laid out numerically, TNM stage, impression and follow-up recommendations.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Nuclear medicine technologists experienced the largest average compensation gains, up 20.2% from $88,576 in 2022 to $106,475 in 2024, according to new results from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Wage and Salary Survey 2024. have seen wage and salary increases since 2022.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2025

F-18 fluoroestradiol (FES)-PET scans can predict whether or not endocrine therapy may be effective in women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, according to a study published March 13 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A visual abstract of the analysis.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 11, 2023

“If testing is successful in humans, this would represent an excellent new treatment option for patients with this disease.”

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Nuclear medicine physicians analyzed both sets of images and determined disease stages, with final stages verified via biopsy. (B) Between December 2018 and January 2021, the group enrolled 41 female participants (median age, 56 years) who underwent both PET scans.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 31, 2024

Claritas HealthTech has spun off its nuclear medicine division into a separate company named Claritas NucMed Technologies. and will focus on the global commercialization, delivery, and deployment of its nuclear medicine suite of software solutions for PET and SPECT, the company said.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

“We’re getting less and less referrals, and that number is dropping,” Anthony Mitarotondo, MD, director of Stony Brook Radiology, said during a recent public hearing.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 7, 2023

SNMMI and ACR are pushing the agency to make modifications retroactive, so specialists can still claim lost revenues impacted by the error.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 31, 2025

Muroff served as director of MR, CT, and nuclear medicine at University Community Hospital in Tampa between 1974 and 1994 and as president of the 45-member radiology practice Drs. He was selected for radiology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, eventually acting as chief resident.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

Doximity's new 2023 Physician Compensation Report offers detailed insight into the impact of continued efforts to narrow the gender pay gap in medicine.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The study was published February 13 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for up to 20% of breast cancer cases and is one of the most aggressive subtypes, with a five-year survival rate of approximately 40%.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We highlight some of the recent accomplishments in research and clinical trials by members of the department who apply nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat illnesses including cancer.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Mo-100 is the parent isotope of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which further decays to technetium-99m (Tc-99m), one of the most widely used radioisotopes worldwide in nuclear medicine imaging. Prior to the achievement, the country relied completely on imports of molybdenum isotopes, the CNNC added.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 5, 2025

It's been really neat for us to not only have the beneficial reuse, where we're offsetting the cost of the American taxpayer, but you're actually seeing something pretty cool come out of it in nuclear medicine space, explained OREM manager Jay Mullis.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Patients have undergone PET/MR scans (Signa, GE HealthCare ) after injection with F-18 PSMA-1007 ; five radiologists have interpreted the mpMRI images and two nuclear medicine physicians interpreted the PSMA-PET images. Interpretation accuracy is compared with biopsy results.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2024

Physicians, health care providers, and medical staff caring for patients who use cannabis should be familiar with the effects of the drug on gut motility and thus nuclear medicine imaging, a recent report advises. The Effects of Cannabis on Bowel Motility and Beyond.” The full article is available here.

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Radiology Business

MAY 21, 2024

The FIND Act is supported by several industry stakeholders including ACR and the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 21, 2024

and European experts have proposed a joint practice guideline for use in nuclear medicine on diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas, as published June 20 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. or European medical agencies, they added.

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Ben White

MARCH 24, 2025

This month, at the request of the Society of Pediatric Radiology , the ABR announced the addition of pediatric radiology to the “do a fellowship during residency” pathway first pioneered by nuclear medicine several years ago. Now, perhaps we want to argue that opening up early subspecialization for other fields (e.g.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging (SNMMI) is praising the U.S. NETs are diagnosed and treated with nuclear medicine imaging. Senate for including neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in the fiscal year 2025 Senate Defense Appropriations report.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix said on January 30 that the funds are intended to increase domestic supplies of radioisotopes for nuclear medicine imaging exams, with the new facility expected to expand British Columbia's capacity from 16,000 PET/CT scans per year to 41,000 per year, CTV News Vancouver reported.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nuclear medicine technology program enrollments increased to 1,403 students enrolling in 2024, up from 903 in 2023. The ASRT sent the survey to 1,263 directors of radiography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine technology, sonography, and MR imaging programs currently approved by the ARRT. It received 412 responses.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

The world’s top nuclear medicine societies have issued international guidelines on the role of PET/CT in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma breast cancer, with the document released May 14 in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The delayed restart of a nuclear research reactor in the Netherlands is expected to cause supply shortages of the imaging agent technetium-99 m (Tc-99m) into November, according to reports. “We The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) also informed its members of the imminent delay.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2024

Nuclear medicine technologists are being advised that not just any meal works for patients before gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES), a common imaging procedure to evaluate how ingested food moves through the stomach. Stop squirting Tc-99m-SC on whatever,” the authors encouraged.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The new-look nuclear medicine treatment was able to cure advanced ovarian cancer in some mice, with limited side effects.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The announcement will come as welcome news, as nuclear medicine departments in numerous regions have been grappling with shortages of Mo-99 and Tc-99m.

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Health Imaging

MARCH 6, 2024

Edibles can reduce gut motility and complicate gastric emptying, a new Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology study finds.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

PET/CT imaging using gallium-68 (Ga-68) Fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) radiotracer over F-18 FDG appears promising in women with invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), according to a study published March 14 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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